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Lauren Williams
Lauren Williams is an Australian freelance journalist based in Turkey. She is the former Middle East Editor at The Daily Star, Lebanon, and the former Managing Editor of Forward Magazine, Syria. Before moving to the region she was a staff reporter at The Daily Telegraph, Sydney. She has reported from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar for The Telegraph UK, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, USA Today, ABC News, The Saturday Paper and The National, among others.
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18 May 2017 14:50Erdogan was forced to concede on almost everything, even withstanding Trump’s repeated mispronunciation of his name during the press conference.
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18 Apr 2017 08:17Turkey’s democracy didn’t die on Sunday; it was already dead. Now the country must live with a democratically-elected dictator.
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24 Jan 2017 15:29The talks are being moderated by Syrian government ally Russia, in the capital city of a former Soviet republic, without US involvement, at a time when military conditions on the ground put the ball firmly in Russia’s court.
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15 Dec 2016 07:05Merkel has vowed to deport many new arrivals and a bill to open deportation camps has just been passed.
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19 Oct 2016 17:03Raqqa is going nowhere and we ignore it at our peril.
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25 Jul 2016 17:21Mohammed — not his real name — is a Syrian opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad. In 2013, he fled to Turkey with his young family.
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01 Jul 2016 16:02Terror has once again struck in Turkey.
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01 Oct 2015 17:54Just what Syria needed – another military actor on the battlefield.